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AdeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Abode
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From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
acquainted
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From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Adam
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affording
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
almost
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
ApplenounUS /apple/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Artist
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asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Author
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From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
avenue
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Banquet
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Beautiful
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beheld
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
BetweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Bird
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Birthmark
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black-ash
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Bosom
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breadth
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Brown
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Buds
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Bullfrog
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Burial
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burying-ground
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Celestial
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Christmas
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clergyman
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Collection
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Correspondence
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cows
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
dainty
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Daughter
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Dealer
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
door
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Drowne's
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du
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Earth's
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Egotism
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epoch
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Eve
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fallen
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Fantasy
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Feathertop
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Fire
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fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
front
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
funeral
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
gate
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
gate-posts
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
gateway
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Goodman
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grass
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gray
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Hall
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
havingauxiliary verbUS /ˈhævɪŋ/
the -ing form of “have”
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
hinges
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Holocaust
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
horse
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Image
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
inhabitant
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Intelligence
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
leading
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Legend
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LifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
living
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
makes
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From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Malvin's
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Manse
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MemorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Miroir
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Monsieur
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Moralized
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mouthfuls
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Mrs
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New
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
now
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Office
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Old
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orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
overgrown
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
own
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
P
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
parsonage
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
PartynounUS /party/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Passages
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pick
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Procession
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Railroad
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Rappaccini's
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Reader
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From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Relinquished
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
roadside
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
Roger
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
rough-hewn
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
s
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Select
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Serpent
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Sketches
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
some
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
stone
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
tall
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
terminating
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
three
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
towardsprepositionUS /təˈwɔːrdz/
in the direction of
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
trees
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
turned
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
twelvemonth
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
two
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
unknown
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
up
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
vagrant
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
venerable
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
village
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From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Virtuoso's
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
vista
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From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
Voices
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergyman, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees.
well
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
wheel-track
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
white
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
whole
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From this reading The wheel-track leading to the door, as well as the whole breadth of the avenue, was almost overgrown with grass, affording dainty mouthfuls to two or three vagrant cows and an old white horse who had his own living to pick up along the roadside.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The Author makes the Reader acquainted with his Abode.
Wooden
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Work
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Worship
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
Young
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From this reading The Old Manse The Birthmark A Select Party Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini’s Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog Fire Worship Buds and Bird Voices Monsieur du Miroir The Hall of Fantasy The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend The New Adam and Eve Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent The Christmas Banquet Drowne’s Wooden Image The Intelligence Office Roger Malvin’s Burial P.’s Correspondence Earth’s Holocaust Passages from a Relinquished Work Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso’s Collection
